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A Computer Academy in France Defies Conventional Wisdom
The new tuition-free computer academy called 42 aims to produce graduates more innovative, employable, diverse, and useful to the French economy.
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Israel’s Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps
Israel's military is working to draw more women into its computer division.
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International Reach of MOOCs Is Limited by sers' Preferences
Speakers at Transatlantic Science Week note that massive open online courses (MOOCs) might democratize higher education globally, but significant progress would...
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Google Books Ruling Is a Huge Victory For Online Innovation
It's taken almost a decade, but the courts have finally handed down a ruling on Google's audacious project to scan millions of books to build a book search engine...
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Delving Into Digital Learning
Carnegie Mellon University has announced the Simon Initiative, which will publicly launch the world's largest student learning database to determine best practices...
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Program Seeks to Nurture 'data Science Culture' at Universities
Academia at New York University, the University of Washington, and the University of California, Berkeley are collaborating on the Sloan Foundation's five-year...
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As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry
On Stanford University’s sprawling campus, where a long palm-lined drive leads to manicured quads, humanities professors produce highly regarded scholarship on...
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Professor Clifford I. Nass, Expert on Human/computer Interactions, Dead at 55
Clifford I. Nass, a Stanford communication professor known for his research on the way people interact with technology, died Nov. 2 at Stanford Sierra Camp near...
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U.s. Teams Up With Operator of Online Courses to Plan a Global Network
Coursera and the U.S. government recently launched a partnership to create learning hubs around the world where students can go to get Internet access to free courses...
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Researcher Explores Student Online Collaboration
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and Carnegie Mellon University are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to study blended learning in which...
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University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School
Recent engineering graduate Mike McCauley is living the dream.
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First-of-Its-Kind Online Master's Draws Wave of Applicants
Since implementing a new low-cost online master's program in computer science based on MOOC technology, Georgia Tech has received almost twice as many applications...
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'mundane' Classes Put Thousands Off Computer Science
Reading University is launching what is believed to be the United Kingdom's first free online university programming course, as the school's vice-chancellor Sir...
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Study: 80% of College Students Say They Text in Class
From the front of his classroom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor Barney McCoy noticed that students’ smart phones were making regular appearances...
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Big Plans For Small Spacecraft
It's hard to miss the rocket engine in Paulo Lozano's MIT office.
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Interview With 13-Year-Old MIT App Inventor Winner Arjun Kumar
A chat with Arjun Kumar, winner of the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology App Inventor contest in the K-8 division for his EZ School Bus Locator.
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The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested
Check it out, I'm working on a reboot of The Graduate, set in 2013.
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Shall We Play a Game?
Gamification, the use of game mechanics and game design techniques in non-gaming contexts, is beginning to grab hold in many industries.
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'running Battle': How Google Hopes to Beat Countries Cracking Down on Internet Freedom
Google hopes a little browser tool will help change the world.
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